Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: August 2015
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Ralph Houk joined the Tigers shortly after resigning as manager of the Yankees. But it wasn’t that simple thanks to new Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the owner of the Oakland A’s, Charlie Finley. The Yankees wanted to hire A’s manager Dick Williams, even though he was still under contract with Finley. No bother. The…
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Ralph Houk was the first Tigers manager I ever knew. I paid more attention to the players then – Jason Thompson, Steve Kemp and Aurelio Rodriguez – but I now wish I would have had the attention span to listen to his post-game interviews on Channel 4 or on WJR. I was only nine when…
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